TY - GEN
T1 - TutorialPlan
T2 - 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2013
AU - Li, Wei
AU - Zhang, Yuanlin
AU - Fitzmaurice, George
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Authoring tutorials for complex software applications is a time consuming process. It also highly depends on the tutorial designer's skill level and experience. This paper introduces an approach which automatically generates software tutorials using the digital artifacts produced by the users of a software program. We model this process as an optimal planning problem using software produced artifacts, software specifications and the human-computer interaction Keystroke- Level Model (KLM). We present TutorialPlan, an automated tutorial generator, which creates stepby- step text and image instructions from CAD drawings and helps users learn AutoCAD, a complex design and drafting software. In our tutorial generator, the optimal planning problem is represented and solved using DLV, a general Answer Set Programming (ASP) system. DLV offers a natural representation of both the problem and the heuristics needed to solve it efficiently. A user study shows that the tutorials generated by our system are comparable to those generated by experienced AutoCAD users.
AB - Authoring tutorials for complex software applications is a time consuming process. It also highly depends on the tutorial designer's skill level and experience. This paper introduces an approach which automatically generates software tutorials using the digital artifacts produced by the users of a software program. We model this process as an optimal planning problem using software produced artifacts, software specifications and the human-computer interaction Keystroke- Level Model (KLM). We present TutorialPlan, an automated tutorial generator, which creates stepby- step text and image instructions from CAD drawings and helps users learn AutoCAD, a complex design and drafting software. In our tutorial generator, the optimal planning problem is represented and solved using DLV, a general Answer Set Programming (ASP) system. DLV offers a natural representation of both the problem and the heuristics needed to solve it efficiently. A user study shows that the tutorials generated by our system are comparable to those generated by experienced AutoCAD users.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84896061629
SN - 9781577356332
T3 - IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
SP - 2020
EP - 2027
BT - IJCAI 2013 - Proceedings of the 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Y2 - 3 August 2013 through 9 August 2013
ER -